Already there is a wealth of exegetical work on the Qur'an, Muhammad al-Ghazali's (d. 1996) work is unique in the sense that it focuses on organic unity of each Chapter (surah). No exegesis is by itself sufficient for a full understanding of the Qur'an. But this work is an indispensable companion in the quest for a better comprehension of the sacred text.
Translated by Ashur A Shamis, revised by Zainab Alawiye

Price: £8.00

The Qur'anic Phenomenon - an essay of a theory on the Qur'an

ISBN No.

9789839154252

ISBN No.

9789839154252

Author

Malik Bennabi

Author

Malik Bennabi

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2004

Published Year

2004

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PB

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ISBN No.

9789839154252

ISBN No.

9789839154252

Author

Malik Bennabi

Author

Malik Bennabi

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2004

Published Year

2004

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PB

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Bennabi's reformulation of the Qur'an's miracle within the wider philosophical and historical context of the religious phenomenon and prophetic movement is quite unique. It invites the mind to a different reading of human religious history and a different understanding of the human condition that goes far beyond the mere concerns of Muslims.
Translated, annotated and with an introduction by Mohamed El-Tahir El-Mesawi

Price: £6.00

The Question of Ideas in the Muslim World

ISBN No.

9789839154511

ISBN No.

9789839154511

Author

Malik Bennabi

Author

Malik Bennabi

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2003

Published Year

2003

Cover

PB

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ISBN No.

9789839154511

ISBN No.

9789839154511

Author

Malik Bennabi

Author

Malik Bennabi

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2003

Published Year

2003

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This is a quintessential summary of Malik Bennabi's philosophical and sociological thought. Besides being a profound analysis and holistic critique of the political and intellectual situation in the Muslim world, the book offers a passionate formulation of what makes the essence of human society and civilization.
Translated, annotated and with a forerword by Mohamed El-Tahir El-Mesawi

Price: £12.50

Imam Al-Shatabi's Theory of the Higher Objectives and Intents of Islamic Law

ISBN No.

9789839154689

ISBN No.

9789839154689

Author

Ahmad Al-Raysuni

Author

Ahmad Al-Raysuni

Publisher

IIIT& Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

IIIT& Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2006

Published Year

2006

Cover

PB

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ISBN No.

9789839154689

ISBN No.

9789839154689

Author

Ahmad Al-Raysuni

Author

Ahmad Al-Raysuni

Publisher

IIIT& Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

IIIT& Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2006

Published Year

2006

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PB

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The most important means by which scholars sought to restore the intimate contact between Muslims and the Qur'an was to study the objectives of Islam, the causes behind legal rulings and the intentions and goals of the Islamic Law. This book, translated from the original Arabic, represents a pioneering contribution presenting a comprehensive theory of the objectives of Islamic Law in its various aspects, as well as a painstaking study of objectives-based thought as pioneered by the father of objectives-based jurisprudence, Imam al-Shatibi. The author presents us with an important study of al-Shatibi himself, which offers a wealth of new, beneficial information about the life, thought and method of this venerable Imam.

Price: £7.00

Dawn in Madinah: A Pilgrim's Passage

ISBN No.

9789839154924

ISBN No.

9789839154924

Author

Muzaffar Iqbal

Author

Muzaffar Iqbal

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2007

Published Year

2007

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ISBN No.

9789839154924

ISBN No.

9789839154924

Author

Muzaffar Iqbal

Author

Muzaffar Iqbal

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2007

Published Year

2007

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This is a vivid account of a month-long retreat in the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah. The luminous details of this sojourn (Ramadan 1418/December 1997-January 1998) in Islam's second-most sacred mosque are superimposed on the historical events that shaped the Muslim community during its initial formative period. Numerous episodes from the life of the Prophet form the backdrop for the slow unfolding of a narrative filled with intense reflections on contemporary Muslim life. Woven into the tapestry of this unique book are the desires, hopes, fears, and spiritual struggles of many pilgrims who were present during the month of Ramadan in the Mosque, fourteen hundred and eighteen years after it was built by Prophet Muhammad and his Companions.

Price: £7.00

The Road to Mecca

ISBN No.

9789839154122

ISBN No.

9789839154122

Author

Muhammad Asad

Author

Muhammad Asad

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

1999

Published Year

1999

Cover

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ISBN No.

9789839154122

ISBN No.

9789839154122

Author

Muhammad Asad

Author

Muhammad Asad

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

1999

Published Year

1999

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This book is an account of the author's adventurous journey in the
Arab world, and about his home-coming to Islam. This book is more than
an autobiography, which the Times Literary Supplement calls 'a
narrative of great power and beauty'.

Price: £10.00

Searching for Solace - A biography of Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Interpreter of the Qur'an (paperback edition)

ISBN No.

9839154001

ISBN No.

9839154001

Author

M. A. Sherif

Author

M. A. Sherif

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2004

Published Year

2004

Cover

PB

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ISBN No.

9839154001

ISBN No.

9839154001

Author

M. A. Sherif

Author

M. A. Sherif

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2004

Published Year

2004

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PB

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This is the first detailed account of the life and ideas of A Yusuf Ali, whose 'The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary' is the most widely used English translation of the Qur'an. This is a candid and sympathetic study that draw on Yusuf Ali's writings and private papers, as well as unpublished sources.

Price: £15.00

Searching for Solace - A biography of Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Interpreter of the Qur'an (hard back edition)

ISBN No.

9839154575

ISBN No.

9839154575

Author

M. A. Sherif

Author

M. A. Sherif

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2004

Published Year

2004

Cover

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ISBN No.

9839154575

ISBN No.

9839154575

Author

M. A. Sherif

Author

M. A. Sherif

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2004

Published Year

2004

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This is the first detailed account of the life and ideas of A Yusuf Ali, whose 'The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary' is the most widely used English translation of the Qur'an. This is a candid and sympathetic study that draw on Yusuf Ali's writings and private papers, as well as unpublished sources.

Price: £15.00

The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an

ISBN No.

9789839154627

ISBN No.

9789839154627

Author

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Author

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2006

Published Year

2006

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ISBN No.

9789839154627

ISBN No.

9789839154627

Author

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Author

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2006

Published Year

2006

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Of all the existing translation and commentaries of the Qur'an in English, 'Abdullah Yusuf 'Ali's version is perhaps the most popular and the widely read. Its chaste English prose and scholarly notes and appendices, have made it a major landmark in the Qur'anic interpretations. It has enjoyed such authority that both scholars and students have widely used this as their reference ever since it was first published in 1934.This new edition, printed on thin paper, comes in a new readable format, beautifully typeset in large font sizes both Arabic and English, with footnotes and commentaries.

Tadabbur-e-Qur'an by Amin Ahsan Islahi (translated by Mohammad Saleem Kayani) invites the reader to ponder and reflect on the message of the Qur'an. It is based on the principle of nazm or coherence and refutes the oft-repeated allegation that the Holy Book lacks order and continuity.

Amin Ahsan Islahi was born in 1904 in Azamgarh, India. There, he was a student, and later a long-serving teacher at the Madrasatu-Islah which specialised in Arabic and Qur'anic studies. A leading Islamic scholar who made Pakistan his home, he was able to draw on what he learned from his own teacher, Imam Hamiduddin Farahi, combining this with a deep understanding of the Arabic language and startlingly original and independent insights. First published in Urdu in 1967, this translation will inspire and reinspire students of the Qur'an who rely on the English language in accessing Islamic source material. Islahi died in Lahore in 1997.

The present volume covers the first two chapters of the Qur'an, Surah Al-Fatihah and Surah Al-Baqarah. It serves as an important resource for students of the Qur'an because its contents are structured into logical sections and subsections with respect to theme and content. Each portion can thus be studied on a week-by-week or other regular basis in a systematic manner. The whole approach is to welcome enquiring and questioning minds to engage with the message of the Qur'an.

Price: £6.00

From Beirut to Jerusalem

ISBN No.

9789839541328

ISBN No.

9789839541328

Author

Dr Ang Swee Chai

Author

Dr Ang Swee Chai

Publisher

The Open Press

Publisher

The Open Press

Published Year

2002

Published Year

2002

Cover

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ISBN No.

9789839541328

ISBN No.

9789839541328

Author

Dr Ang Swee Chai

Author

Dr Ang Swee Chai

Publisher

The Open Press

Publisher

The Open Press

Published Year

2002

Published Year

2002

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This is the story of Dr Ang Swee Chai, a Penang-born orthopaedic surgeon, and her flight to war-torn Lebanon in 1982 to treat the wounded and dying. This new edition, twenty years after the Zionist terrorism in Shabra and Shatila which killed thousands of Palestinian civilians, is a tribute to the ongoing struggle against Zionist occupation in the Holy Lands.

Price: £7.50

Shatibi's Philosophy of Islamic Law

ISBN No.

9789839154139

ISBN No.

9789839154139

Author

Muhammad Khalid Masud

Author

Muhammad Khalid Masud

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2005

Published Year

2005

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ISBN No.

9789839154139

ISBN No.

9789839154139

Author

Muhammad Khalid Masud

Author

Muhammad Khalid Masud

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Publisher

Islamic Book Trust

Published Year

2005

Published Year

2005

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Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi (d.1888) had sought an answer to the challenge
posed by modernisation and change to Islamic law, by introducing
maslahah, which forms the basis of his philosophy of Islamic law. In a
fascinating way, the author leads us step by step to what he considers
the true import of Shatibi's views concerning Jurisprudence.

Price: £7.00

Modern Islamic Political Thought

ISBN No.

1-85043-466-2

ISBN No.

1-85043-466-2

Author

Hamid Enayat

Author

Hamid Enayat

Publisher

I.B.Tauris

Publisher

I.B.Tauris

Published Year

2005

Published Year

2005

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PB

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ISBN No.

1-85043-466-2

ISBN No.

1-85043-466-2

Author

Hamid Enayat

Author

Hamid Enayat

Publisher

I.B.Tauris

Publisher

I.B.Tauris

Published Year

2005

Published Year

2005

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PB

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The revival and power of religious feelings among Muslims since the Iranian revolution presents a complicated and often perplexing picture of the politics of modern Islam. What are the ideas which have influenced the direction of these trends?
Here, Hamid Enayat provides an answer by describing and interpreting some of the major Islamic political ideas, especially those expressed by Iranians and Egyptians, as well as thinkers from Pakistan, India, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. He examines the political differences between the two main schools in Islam - Shi'ism and Sunnism.
Also covered in the book is: the concept of the Islamic state; and the Muslim response to the challenge of alien and modern ideologies such as nationalism, democracy and socialism - as well as notions of Shi'i modernism.

Price: £5.00

The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad and the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism

ISBN No.

0-349-11757-8

ISBN No.

0-349-11757-8

Author

Barnaby Rogerson

Author

Barnaby Rogerson

Publisher

Abacus

Publisher

Abacus

Published Year

2006

Published Year

2006

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PB

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ISBN No.

0-349-11757-8

ISBN No.

0-349-11757-8

Author

Barnaby Rogerson

Author

Barnaby Rogerson

Publisher

Abacus

Publisher

Abacus

Published Year

2006

Published Year

2006

Cover

PB

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The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization.

That the protagonists originated from the small oasis communities of central Arabia gives their adventures, their rivalries, their loves and their achievements an additional vivacity and intimacy. So that on one hand, The Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad is a swaggering saga of ambition, immense achievement, self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry, while on the other it allows us to understand some of the complexities of our modern world. For within this fifty-year span of conquest and empire- building, Barnaby Rogerson also identifies the seeds of discord that destroyed the unity of Islam, and traces the roots of the schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims to the rivalry of the two individuals who best knew and loved the Prophet: his cousin and son-in-law Ali and his wife Aisha.

The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad recounts the lives of the handful of individuals - the first four Caliphs, the Prophet's widows and the conquering generals - who led and influenced Islam after the death of Muhammad. Their dazzling achievements are thrillingly chronicled, but so too are the conflicting ambitions that led to civil war. So that although an empire was forged, in the process Muhammad's own family would be disinherited, his grandson murdered, the revered temple of God at Mecca, the Kaaba, burned to the ground, and the first copy of the Koran stained with the blood of a Caliph.

Concluding the masterly account of the history of Islam begun with The Prophet Muhammad, Barnaby Rogerson has done justice to one of our few truly epic stories.

Price: £7.00

Only Half of Me

ISBN No.

0-670-91509-2

ISBN No.

0-670-91509-2

Author

Rageh Omaar

Author

Rageh Omaar

Publisher

Penguin

Publisher

Penguin

Published Year

2006

Published Year

2006

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ISBN No.

0-670-91509-2

ISBN No.

0-670-91509-2

Author

Rageh Omaar

Author

Rageh Omaar

Publisher

Penguin

Publisher

Penguin

Published Year

2006

Published Year

2006

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HB

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A young boy attends a madrassa in Mogadishu, Somalia. His parents take him on pilgrimage to Mecca. He comes to Britain as a child and by the time he is a young man, the war in Somalia prevents him from going home. Years later he will watch the US operation in Mogadishu in horror whilst some of his closest relatives are in the city. He will witness the invasion of Iraq in disbelief.
For many people in Britain this is the biography of a man to be feared, the typical life of a young, male, black, British Muslim. It is also Rageh Omaar's story.
Only Half of Me is the profoundly moving account on being a Muslim in Britain: the author's own childhood and his attempt to straddle the world of his parents and that of his own, Western generation. It is also the story of people from similar backgrounds who made very different decisions: the Somali man who attempted to kill civilians because of a war happening in a Muslim country he has never visited; the Muslims who are renouncing their religion; the author's cousin who was stabbed in a London street on 8 July 2005.
Full of humanity and rage, empathy and insight, "Only Half of Me" is an utterly compelling book that takes the reader on a journey into the heart of modern Britain and brings to life a world that has remained, until now, hidden from view.